In this activity, students will design and construct a water bottle rocket. Students will demonstrate understanding of a good experimental design and analysis of results. Upon completion of flight of the rocket, students will find the height, speed, potential and kinetic energy of the rocket.

Students will learn about three states of matter with this simple experiment as they make a salt water solution.  They will observe that water evaporates, but salt does not.  

In this STEM lesson, students are challenged to create and test a water filtering system. The STEM activities in this lesson focus on water recovery and management. Students will design and build a water filtration device, test the device, make observations, and collect data. They will collaborate as they analyze results and attempt to idenity the best filter media to use. Based on their analysis and on study of other filtration devices, they will make modifications to their model and repeat the process in an effort to produce the most effective filtration apparatus possible. Lastly, students will compare individual results and communicate their results to the larger community.

This instructional video shows educators how to set up a wave machine using wooden kabob sticks, jelly candies, and duct tape. The video also demonstrates how the wave machine can then be used to illustrate various wave properties. Background content on waves and wave energy is also provided.

In this unit of study, students will learn about the behavior of waves. Lessons in this unit include: Boundary Behavior; Reflection, Refraction, and Diffraction; Interference of Waves; and The Doppler Effect. This unit includes questions at the end of each section to allow students to self assess and check for understanding.

This online resource provides information about the different types of waves and how waves can be categorized based on distinguishing characteristics. A simple assessment is provided at the end of the text to check student understanding.

In this unit of study, students will learn about properties of a wave. Lessons in this unit include: The Anatomy of a Wave; Frequency and Period of a Wave; Energy Transport and the Amplitude of a Wave; The Speed of a Wave; and The Wave Equation. This unit includes questions at the end of each lesson to allow students to self assess and check for understanding.

In this unit, students will learn how to identify the parts of a wave and the terminology associated with waves including frequency, period, and amplitude. Lessons in the unit include: Vibrational Motion; Properties of Periodic Motion; Pendulum Motion; and Motion of a Mass on a Spring. This unit includes animations and mini quizzes to check for understanding and facilitate learning.

Students will explore the relationship between drag and weight by experimenting with air resistance and vacuums.

In this lesson students will learn about refraction and diffraction. They will understand that light is a wave and compare constructive interference and destructive interference.

This activity goes with the lesson "Heat Transfer: No Magic About It". In this activity students will learn the process of conduction as it relates to heating a liquid and explain why some specific heat capacities are desirable in fluids used as heat exchangers.

This lesson plan is a PBL (problem based learning) project. The students first took a survey to grab their attention, which informed them of their sleeping habits. Then the students began researching the question, "what factors are needed in order to get a good night's sleep?". The students will read a Time for Kids article, as well as research other articles, to discover new information about the topic. Based on what they learned, they will create an informative Piktochart that will be presented in class, displayed at the school fair, and hung around the school. Their final projects will ultimately help other students to achieve better sleeping habits!

Students will demonstrate that work equals force times distance and investigate the connection between work and potential energy, kinetic energy, and heat.

In this lesson, students become familiar with magnetic domains and their influence on the magnetism of a magnet. Students use candy and a small box to model domain patterns

Create Your Own VR AdventureUsing Roundme.com, Chris Beneck, created a VR Adventure at The Whirligig Park in Wilson, NC.  Direct Link - https://roundme.com/tour/720697/view/2269474Bit.ly Link - https://bit.ly/whirligigparkThe links above can be used with a VR kit.

Students will be able to explain, on the molecular level, how the polar characteristic of water and sugar interact so that water dissolves sugar.

This resource is an animation that accompanies the lesson, "Why Does Water Dissolve Sugar?"

The aim of this lesson is to introduce the concept of neutralization and its application in our daily lives. Students are encouraged to construct their knowledge of neutralization through brainstorming sessions, experiments, and mind mapping.

In this unit, students will learn how to categorize forces based upon whether or not their presence is capable of changing an object's total mechanical energy. Students will also learn that there are certain types of forces, that when present and when involved in doing work on objects will change the total mechanical energy of the object. Lessons in this unit include: Internal vs. External forces; Analysis of Situations In Which Mechanical Energy is Conserved; and Bar Chart Illustrations. This unit includes videos, animations, and mini quizzes to check for understanding and facilitate learning.

A park ranger needs to build a zipline to drop food supplies to her mentor park ranger at the bottom of a gorge. Unfortunately, she does not have the instructions to build the zipline according to the proper specifications. Without directions, she is unsure of the correct angles to attach her zipline to each tree. Additionally, she needs to figure out how to open the chute to drop the food supplies. Challenge: Create a zip line that will release from her bucket (paper cup) the food supplies (represented by a marble) onto the target (placed 5/8 of the way down the zipline) before the gear reaches the opposite end of the zip line.